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10-20-2008, 08:21 PM
The UFO world is abuzz today as the U.K. Ministry of Defence releases another set of reports formerly classifed as "secret-UK eyes only." Among those records: a 1957 account from a U.S. pilot who was scrambled and sent up over Kent, England to intercept and shoot down a UFO.
According to the Times Online: (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4974540.ece)
"The order came straight out of the Cold War manual: “Arm all weapons and fire on sight.” For Lieutenant Milton Torres, an American jet fighter pilot based in Britain, it was the first and last time that he had received such a chilling instruction.
As soon as he scrambled his Sabre jet from RAF Manston in Kent and headed eastwards, he saw the blip on his radar, indicating the presence of an aircraft the size of a B52 about 15 miles away, and he prepared to close in for the kill with a salvo of rockets. But the “aircraft”, judged to be hostile and probably Russian, simply vanished. The blip on the radar disappeared.
The 24-year-old American pilot's extraordinary experience on the night of May 20, 1957, which he was officially ordered never to reveal to anyone, has come to light after the declassification of another batch of Ministry of Defence files relating to reported incidents of unidentified flying objects appearing in British airspace — in this case the only known example of a jet fighter pilot being ordered to shoot down a UFO."
The account includes a warning from a man in a trenchcoat, reportedly U.S., who ordered Torres never to speak of the incident. His story is among the many found in today's release of UFO sightings and alien encounters reported to the British government.
Dr. David Clarke, a noted UFO researcher, journalist, and professor at Sheffield University (http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/biodc.htm), worked with the National Archives to release the material. He provides a video review of the materials at the Archives website. (http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/video.asp)
The photo, above, came from the "Best UFO Pictures Ever Taken" at UFO Casebook. (http://www.ufocasebook.com/bestufopictures.html) Their collection covers the years 1870 through 2008.
In an interview in May, when the first batch of U.K. reports were released, Clarke said "The truth is simple..there really are many strange phenomena in the sky ." He went on to say that he believed that there was usually a natural explanation such as ball lightning, space debris, or seeing an aircraft from an unusual angle.
More... (http://www.examiner.com/x-504-Space-News-Examiner~y2008m10d20-US-pilot-ordered-to-shoot-down-UFO-story-one-of-many-in-British-XFiles-release?cid=exrss-Space-News-Examiner)
According to the Times Online: (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4974540.ece)
"The order came straight out of the Cold War manual: “Arm all weapons and fire on sight.” For Lieutenant Milton Torres, an American jet fighter pilot based in Britain, it was the first and last time that he had received such a chilling instruction.
As soon as he scrambled his Sabre jet from RAF Manston in Kent and headed eastwards, he saw the blip on his radar, indicating the presence of an aircraft the size of a B52 about 15 miles away, and he prepared to close in for the kill with a salvo of rockets. But the “aircraft”, judged to be hostile and probably Russian, simply vanished. The blip on the radar disappeared.
The 24-year-old American pilot's extraordinary experience on the night of May 20, 1957, which he was officially ordered never to reveal to anyone, has come to light after the declassification of another batch of Ministry of Defence files relating to reported incidents of unidentified flying objects appearing in British airspace — in this case the only known example of a jet fighter pilot being ordered to shoot down a UFO."
The account includes a warning from a man in a trenchcoat, reportedly U.S., who ordered Torres never to speak of the incident. His story is among the many found in today's release of UFO sightings and alien encounters reported to the British government.
Dr. David Clarke, a noted UFO researcher, journalist, and professor at Sheffield University (http://www.uk-ufo.org/condign/biodc.htm), worked with the National Archives to release the material. He provides a video review of the materials at the Archives website. (http://ufos.nationalarchives.gov.uk/video.asp)
The photo, above, came from the "Best UFO Pictures Ever Taken" at UFO Casebook. (http://www.ufocasebook.com/bestufopictures.html) Their collection covers the years 1870 through 2008.
In an interview in May, when the first batch of U.K. reports were released, Clarke said "The truth is simple..there really are many strange phenomena in the sky ." He went on to say that he believed that there was usually a natural explanation such as ball lightning, space debris, or seeing an aircraft from an unusual angle.
More... (http://www.examiner.com/x-504-Space-News-Examiner~y2008m10d20-US-pilot-ordered-to-shoot-down-UFO-story-one-of-many-in-British-XFiles-release?cid=exrss-Space-News-Examiner)